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Ochtrup
Kr. Steinfurt Nordrhein-Westfalen Weinerstraße / Südwall |
Ehrenmal 1914-18War Memorial 1914-18 |
artist unknown
c. 1925 |
Stone column with fountain. At the top is a statue of a soldier. On the front a coat of arms with the Lamb of God (arms of the town of Ochtrup) with the year 1595, a text in dialect and on the back names of the fallen (illegible). On the sides statues of a man with a broken chain and a woman with a leafy sprig and a cross behind her, also with names of fallen soldiers below them.
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Sie oh Frönd! seih di de Namens an! En Jeder nömmt met Ehr een Mann – de auk för di sien Liäben lait – Ver- gätt dat nich! Giff Trü üm Trü – dat ut de Saat för iähr för di – Wäß Glück för Tied im Ewigkeit Well ju vergätt – is nich wärt dat he ätt. |
See friend see the names and each one calls with honour a man - who also before you gave his life. Remember that. Give loyalty for loyalty, that it may be the seed for years for you - what happiness forever in eternity If you forget you are not worthy that you eat |
The transcription and translation are probably not entirely accurate
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